Guide to the General Young Marshall Moody family papers , 1852-1955

The bulk of the correspondence is
from Young M. Moody to his “Dear and Confiding Wife.”, written during the U.S. Civil
War. In addition there are other family letters, military correspondence, land and
business records, slave bills of sale, photographs, daguerreotypes and badges of
rank and an epaulet from General Moody’s uniform.

Young M. Moody (1822-1866) was an active Alabama businessman before the outbreak of
the U.S. Civil War. He joined the army and eventually went with the Alabama 43rd
Regiment, which came under the command of Brigadier General Archibald Gracie
(1832-1864). The Alabama 43rd was in some of the worst fighting of the war. Colonel
Moody was wounded sometime in 1863. When General Gracie was killed on December 3,
1864, Colonel Moody took over command of the Brigade and was promoted to Brigadier
General in March 1865. At the war’s end General Moody and his family moved to New
Orleans where he died of a fever in the fall of 1866.

The bulk of the correspondence is from Young M. Moody to his “Dear and Confiding
Wife.”, written during the U.S. Civil War. In addition there are other family
letters, military correspondence, land and business records, slave bills of sale,
photographs, daguerreotypes and badges of rank and an epaulet from General Moody’s
uniform.